Thales, coordinator of the RESQUE consortium, reports that the group's project aims to develop, within 3 years, a post-quantum encryption solution to protect the communications, infrastructures and networks of local authorities and businesses against future attacks orchestrated by a quantum computer.
The computing power offered will potentially have the capacity to break the various existing encryption algorithms widely used today. It thus threatens the security of the most sensitive data, and therefore the sovereignty of countries.
In addition to Thales, the RESQUE consortium includes five French players: secure communications SME TheGreenBow, cryptography SME CryptoExperts, start-up CryptoNext Security, the French National Agency for Information Systems Security (ANSSI) and the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria).
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Thales is one of the European leaders in manufacturing and marketing of electronic equipment and systems for the defense and security, aerospace, and transportation sectors. Net sales break down by product group as follows:
- defense and security systems (53.4%): C4I defense and security systems (control and monitoring systems, communication, protection, cyber-security, and other systems), defense mission systems, naval systems, electronic war systems, drones, air operation systems (air defense, air surveillance), ground defense systems and missiles;
- aerospace systems (28.4%): avionics equipment (cockpit, cabin multimedia, and simulation equipment), space systems (satellites, payloads, etc.);
- digital identification and security solutions (18.2%).
Besides, the group owns a 35% stake in Naval Group (manufacture of naval equipment for defense and nuclear energy sectors).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: France (29.5%), the United Kingdom (6.6%), Europe (24.8%), the United States and Canada (14%), Asia (9.4%), Near and Middle East (6%), Australia and New Zealand (4.4%) and other (5.3%).